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Hello and welcome to
our Family Worship program
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and it's Sabbath.
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It's always on Sabbath.
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Don't you enjoy
the Sabbath hour?
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Oh, I love the Sabbath.
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And the body just
automatically just kind of,
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in fact, it's scientific.
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It's actually been
scientifically proven
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that the body just kind
of automatically winds down
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around the seventh day.
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It's amazing and God
created us like that.
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And it's always is a reminder
when we were kids at home,
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you know,
around Sabbath evening,
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we'd be doing all the
running, doing all the,
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you know, all these
boys and little girls
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around all this
but in Friday evening,
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you know, when
Sabbath came before Sabbath,
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in fact,
everybody start winding down
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and then we always
had our family worship.
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Yes.
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Singing around the
piano and sometimes the guitar
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and then we'd talk and
read scriptures and so.
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It's a great
time and as you said,
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when Sabbath comes even though
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we travel and we
do a lot of things,
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Sabbath is still
somehow relaxes me.
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It does.
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You know, I don't have
to worry about other things,
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you know, in life going on just,
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this is the Lord's Day.
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Amen. This is the Lord's Day.
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Amen. We got some
speaking of family.
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We've family here today.
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I know we have a real
family worship right here.
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Why don't you introduce them?
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Okay, let's start with this side
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of the table here.
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My brother-in-law, your brother,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton,
his lovely wife, Chris.
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All right. Great.
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It's good to be here.
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Yes. Yes.
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Good to be here.
Excited to be here.
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Yes.
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We love... We love sitting here.
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I know.
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Oh, no, we love
being with family.
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Yeah. We love it.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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It's such a blessing.
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And then we have
our son, Jason Bradley.
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All right.
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And he's here with us too,
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and we're just so
glad you're here too.
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I'm glad to be here too,
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you know, family
worships are always nice.
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And family
get-togethers are always nice,
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especially when
there's food involved.
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Oh, my word.
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Today, we're
gonna surprise, Jason.
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We're gonna be looking
at some spiritual food.
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Oh, that's good. That's good.
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And I'm sure you can
heat up physical food.
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Oh, right, right.
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Yeah, there you go, as
well as the spiritual food.
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Amen. Yes.
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But today you kind
of picked out the topic.
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So I'm gonna kind
of just sit back here
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and follow you lead.
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Okay? Okay, okay.
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All right.
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Well, a few weeks ago,
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I was thinking,
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what in the world
could we talk about
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on family worship and I prayed,
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I said, "Lord, what
would you have us to discuss?"
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And in my head it
popped in, stand firm.
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Standing firm. Yes.
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And it's a topic that,
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you know, you hear
that expression a lot.
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But what does it
mean to stand firm?
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Stand fast, being steadfast,
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all of these expressions
really mean to stand firm.
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So let's start there. Okay.
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What does it mean
to you to stand firm?
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Well, coming from a
construction background
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Kenny and me,
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I would say that when
you build a house and, Jay,
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getting ready to build a house.
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And that the
foundation... Oh, come on.
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You can only stand firm
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when you have a
solid foundation.
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Come on now, come on. Yeah.
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Now, that's right.
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To dig down in the basement,
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which you dig the
footings you're gonna have then,
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you know, a couple
feet wide and some depending
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where you live
maybe a couple feet deep.
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And so you pour this
concrete and it's on that level,
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and Kenny takes a right tools.
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He knows how to
get out there and...
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Oh, mercy.
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What do you, Kenny do?
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To site that, the line it...
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Yeah, we got to
transit the level.
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Yeah. Okay.
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No, I haven't. Not
transient, but transit.
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I think of
transit, I'm from New York.
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I'm passing the subway.
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Our transit is really important
because you wanna make sure
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you're not
building something crooked.
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Oh, I love it. Oh, that's good.
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So what happens I take
the dummy and I call it,
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I take the end
we have a long pole.
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And we mark like inches
one, two, three, four, five.
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And so Kenny starts at the
end where you gonna build solid,
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you want your house,
the corner of it right here.
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So I go to the other end
and this transit will shoot it,
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he sets it up.
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It's got a bubble on it.
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When it's exactly
zero if it says 24 inches
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that means there's
24 inches difference.
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Okay.
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So we have to compensate
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when we're
putting in that footing.
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So when you talk
about standing firm,
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you want to stand
firm but it has to be
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on the solid rock in Jesus.
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Come on, come on.
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Somebody said to
the cornerstone, right?
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Yeah. Yes.
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It's got to be level
with the cornerstone.
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That's good. Yeah.
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It's good.
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And you'd like it too
that transit's very good
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about making sure that building,
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I want to pay, it's square,
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not necessarily
you'll be squared,
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but you've got to have
good corners and building
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has to be square.
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If it does, nothing works.
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Oh, yeah. No hope.
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It holds, if
everything is out of whack
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when you go to put
it in there so you level
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and then square
of the building right
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to where all the lumber
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and everything
fits properly even...
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That means putting
sheet rock on the inside
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and doing
everything on the outside,
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the decking,
flooring, everything,
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nothing would fit right
if you got it out of square
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and out of level.
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To be balanced, want
to be balanced approach.
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Let me tell you a
little funny story
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of your mom, right?
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Oh, boring. Here we go.
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She says could we
build a porch out,
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you know, the end of the house
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was a walkout basement.
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I'm looking at Jay
right now. He's chuckling.
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It's a walkout basement
and I'd had the house built it
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years ago but never
did really put a porch
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and I said, sure,
we'll do it so we'll make
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like a 20 by 20
porch out that way.
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So it's the head of
concrete below, Kenny,
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and so I got the
post and ended up
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getting a big metal square
that you can stick the post
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in and tied down to
anchor it good and solid,
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and Jay and Mark was helping me.
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And so we leveled it
everything, we transit it,
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got it all level made sure
that when we started putting
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the floor joists
down that you walk out on.
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It was perfectly leveled.
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She comes home.
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She opens the front
door and she looks out.
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I say, "What do you think?"
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We finally got all the
post up, got everything leveled,
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got the outside plates on,
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you know, the
floor joist is across,
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so what do you think?
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She goes, "Looks crooked to me."
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Was it nice floor joist,
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it's something
nice but you always have
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to say something nice before,
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you know, yeah, yeah,
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so I said, "Oh,
it looks really nice
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but it just looks a
little crooked here to me."
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Yes, she said, looks crooked
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and she was looking at
like this of the porch.
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I said, "Well, if
you'll stand up straight,
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may be it look straight.
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Oh, my word.
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Can you believe it,
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we put so much
work into making sure it
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was exactly level.
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He should have asked me...
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Well, you know,
the good point that,
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the point is though,
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we can't tell by
looking at things.
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Come on now, see I love this,
make a spiritual application.
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No, really so.
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So when you're looking
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at and we're
talking spiritual now,
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but you have to
have the Word of God,
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Jesus is that cornerstone.
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That's right.
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And so now,
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everything is built off of that.
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And so, but in
our own human eyes
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we can look and see
things out of kilter, as we say.
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Right.
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See things that we can't
go by our mind, by our eyes...
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That's right.
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We have to stay
with the foundation.
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So even though she said
it, it made me wanted to doubt,
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but I'd already, we'd
already had the string tight.
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We had a little level
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and the little
bubble said exactly
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where it's supposed to be.
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So I knew, even
though what she said
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was kind of convincing.
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Oh, yeah, I bet.
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She said it like this
point almost was really nice,
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but kind of crooked.
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And I'm like,
man, what are we doing?
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Then I said, no, no,
no, we built this right.
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So that's a Jay.
That's an excellent.
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That's an excellent application
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'cause you're
talking about standing firm.
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So she was the one
that was tempting you,
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you know, with
her thought of tries.
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But you stood firm
because you built on the rock.
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That's right.
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You had the right level,
you had the moral absolute.
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If we're
talking about spiritual,
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you know, when you're
talking about the squares,
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and it made me think
of the New Jerusalem,
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what is Christ building?
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A city, four squares. Oh, yes.
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It will be perfect.
Built on that solid rock.
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Yes.
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Amen. Amen.
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This is good. He
keeps getting deeper.
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I love it. I love it.
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I love the way
he talks it to you.
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I love it, yeah. That's good.
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Philippians 1:27 says,
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"Nevertheless,
conduct yourselves
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in a manner worthy
of the gospel of Christ.
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Then," this is Paul talking,
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"then whether I come and see you
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or hear about you in my absence.
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I will know that you stand firm
in one spirit contending side
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by side for the
faith of gospel."
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Amen.
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Now, to me, this
whole idea of standing firm
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and contending side by side,
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we not only stand
firm as individuals,
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but we need to
stand firm as a church.
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Yes.
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Contending side by side,
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there's so much
coming up against us now.
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And this, there
was a commentary here
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that I like to share
about what was written
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with this scripture
in the original Greek
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and it signifies to hold on
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and to remain
firm at one's post.
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Yes.
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It's derived from the combats,
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from war, from warfare,
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in which each
endeavor to keep his place
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and to maintain
himself in his seat
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without going
back or being shaken
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by all the attacks of the enemy.
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So it's all about
standing firm in one place
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contending side by side.
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Amen. Yes.
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So that we march forward.
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Oh, yes.
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You ever see those armies
that are in step as they walk,
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you know, they're all in step.
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That's what God I
think expects of His church
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for us to be in
step and to move forward,
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standing firmly in the faith.
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Amen.
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And that to me is
what this verse is saying.
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So it says, "In
the spiritual warfare,
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we should never
allow ourselves to be drawn
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from that position in
which God has placed us
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and that all together,
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like his faithful
and valiant soldiers,
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courageously
repulsing the enemy,
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we should always stand firm
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without
quitting either the faith
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or the profession,
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which by His
grace we have made."
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Amen.
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That's right. Oh, that's good.
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You know, as a good soldier,
you're gonna stand firm,
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you were talking about
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all of these
battles going on and,
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and you mentioned
that looked crooked
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to you 'cause a lot
of times, we're in...
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We're nowhere in
a spiritual warfare,
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and sometimes we
look and we think,
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well, maybe that
isn't so crooked after all,
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maybe that's the way.
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You know, but as a
good soldier in Christ,
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we have to come back
to thus saith the Lord.
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That's right.
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Go back to the Word of
God to stand firm no matter.
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In other words, you
can't trust what you see.
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We're not, we're
getting to a point
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we can't trust what we hear.
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You can't trust what we feel.
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I mean, 'cause there's a lot
of spiritual feeling out there.
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There's a lot of
spiritual warfare going on.
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But is that the Spirit of God?
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And how do we know?
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That is a
critical, critical piece.
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You can't trust
what you see, right?
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Because Satan can
impact our senses.
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It's happening, yes.
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We have to have an
objective standard.
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That's why, you
know, this whole thing
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about my truth and your
truth and what is your truth,
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it's all relative.
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Truth is subjective.
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You know, I really
like this part about
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not abandoning your
posts because if you think
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about somebody guarding an
area or being at their post,
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they're not allowing
compromise to slip in.
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Oh, come on, come on.
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Abandoning your post
and you allow an entrance,
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a weakness in
the line of defense,
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and then that
compromise slips in.
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And then as a result of
that compromise slipping in,
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you're moving closer and closer
into the enemy's territory.
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Yes.
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But if you stand
firm at that post
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and you allow the
Lord to strengthen you.
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Yes.
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That's good. That's good.
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But you're gonna be
challenged. Oh, absolutely.
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I mean, the good
part was challenge
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because we're talking
about the porch again.
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But there's
nothing wrong with it
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because when you do
something you think is right.
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You studied it out.
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You've done all necessary steps.
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Somebody is gonna come up to you
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and say this is not
the way you should do it.
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And sometimes
they are in a position
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to where they have an influence.
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And then you're gonna say,
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I wonder if I
did the right thing?
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Well, as
Brother Danny mentioned,
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I know we did
because the way we set it up.
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We checked, we rechecked it,
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I'm talking
about study the word,
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spiritual application.
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We went back to the word,
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even though they challenge
that this is not the truth.
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We studied it, we looked
at it, we know that it is,
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it might look a
little strange to some.
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But, you know, a lot of
times it looks strange to people
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because the Bible
says spiritual things
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are spiritually discern.
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That's right.
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If we're not on
the spiritual page,
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if we're not led
by the Holy Spirit
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of living God,
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everything that a
Christian puts out
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there somebody's
gonna say it's crooked.
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That's right.
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You know, and you have to know
that is right and you go back,
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I've done it many times
because you're challenged,
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you go back saying that,
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I wanna make
sure I did this right
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because a lot is on this.
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Right.
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Look and say thank you,
Lord, that's what it says.
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And regardless if they
say it's crooked or not,
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God said this is
the straight road.
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That's right.
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And we're in that
time in world's history
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where err is becoming
truth and truth is becoming err.
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And I mean, we have actually,
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I've even seen the video
where a pastor's up front
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in front of his church.
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And they took, he took his Bible
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and threw it across the floor.
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We don't need that anymore
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because a lot of things
are coming into the church
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that the Bible, they want
to say that it's old fashion.
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It's not present truth anymore.
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But how, you
know, they've lost touch
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with moral absolute.
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And so it's very,
very dangerous time
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in which we're living in.
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Yes. You can be sure.
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Like when you said that
to us, I keep going back.
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She started it. She started it.
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It's a good illustration.
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It's a good example.
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Reason that we
stuck where we were is,
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Kenny, and I have
built many, many houses,
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some churches, garages,
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all of these and
I did the same thing
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I've always done and
houses that we built.
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You can go into
West Frankfort every day,
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house we built in 1972 is
still standing over there.
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And I used the same
principle and it look straight,
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you know, we used the same.
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So when you use
the same principles
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even though which for
a second it's like what?
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And in your defense
when you were looking out,
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it's a walkout basement
so everything is downhill,
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it goes like this.
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So standing up
in the living room,
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I could say as you were
getting ready to step out,
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we were on the ladder,
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looking at eye
level at this thing up
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about 10 feet high.
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She was standing looking out,
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but she's had all of
these other things to distract
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to make it look
like it wasn't there.
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So I think what you're saying
is you can't go by the eye.
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Exactly.
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You can only stand firm
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if you know,
you're on that solid rock.
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If you use the same principle
that you've always used before,
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then I think you can
be confident and say no,
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that's it's straight.
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So I said to
her, no, it's level.
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We can prove it to you,
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I have the
eight foot level here.
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Yeah.
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She could made a
bubble I know on that.
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At least for eight
feet I can show you,
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eight feet at a
time 'cause I said,
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well that she
wouldn't understand
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some of the other things.
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But if I set that level up there
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and that bubble is
right in the middle,
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that means it's leveled.
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So what you're
saying then is perspective.
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So my perspective was off.
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But I needed that objective tool
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to give me the
right perspective.
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Yes. Yes.
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Okay. There you go.
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You were on the
solid ground in that room,
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but I was looking from
a different perspective.
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So I needed an
objective tool to tell me
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what the true
condition of that room was.
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Yeah.
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And that's what
the Word does for us.
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You were open to the truth. Yes.
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I've seen sometime
too where you put, Danny,
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we put the level on it,
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but because of the
surroundings of it.
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That's what I was talking about.
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It looks like it's
still not and you look back
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at the level again,
the bubble's in the center.
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Again, it's all those things
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that sometime
want to throw us off.
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And sometime we
don't stand so firm.
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And then you test the bubble.
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Yes.
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Because you can
test the Word of God...
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Come on. That's right.
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'Cause there are times
that the bubbles can get off.
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They do.
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When your
levels up and it falls,
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they're usually glass
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and they got
little screws on there.
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And so the way that
you know if it's off
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or not as you flip it over,
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and if it shows
the same reading,
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in other words, you
can flip the bubbles over,
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you can change
hands with the level
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and see if it reads the same,
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but you have to go
back because even the bubble
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has to be tested.
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So have to try those spirits.
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So you say okay, what if,
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you know, something happened,
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somebody dropped that,
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something happened that it's off
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but you can do that,
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so you can test the Word of God,
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but it will always come true.
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Amen.
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You can flip the Word of
God over, ain't that right?
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Flip it over
this way or that way
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or from this end to that end,
00:19:07.04\00:19:08.58
it's still gonna
ring true at the time.
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That almost reminds me of
testing the individual too.
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Are they the same in
public as they are in private.
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There you go. There you go.
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Do they still have the
same relationship with God
00:19:16.12\00:19:18.69
in private as they do in public.
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I like that being
able to flip that over.
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That's great, and
that's good to know
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for when we build my house.
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Yeah.
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That's something I didn't know.
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The thing with the
room that I didn't tell
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was it was just
gonna be a porch.
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So I built this big porch
and get ready build it out
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and she came out and said,
00:19:37.31\00:19:40.28
"Oh, this is
gonna be so wonderful,
00:19:40.31\00:19:42.04
we'll be able to see the sunset,
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I can set out here
and just enjoy reading."
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I say great.
00:19:45.95\00:19:47.28
She said, "Well,
what are we going
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to do about the flies?"
00:19:48.68\00:19:51.25
I said, "What do you mean,
00:19:51.29\00:19:52.62
what we're gonna
do about the flies?"
00:19:52.65\00:19:53.99
She goes, "Well, you know,
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I can't stand flies
around my food or around me."
00:19:55.39\00:19:59.13
I mean, I've seen her knock
her salad bowl on an airplane
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with the guy next to her,
00:20:05.47\00:20:07.07
fly landed and she
knocked everything and...
00:20:07.10\00:20:09.74
Oh, my goodness.
00:20:09.77\00:20:11.11
She was going 'cause
she can't stand the flies.
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So she said, "Well,
now what are we gonna do
00:20:13.51\00:20:15.48
about the flies?
00:20:15.51\00:20:16.85
How are you
gonna keep those out?"
00:20:16.88\00:20:18.21
I said, "Well, you don't,"
00:20:18.25\00:20:19.58
it's just a front porch
or just a big porch out here.
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She goes, "Is there
any way we could close
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like maybe put a screen."
00:20:23.72\00:20:25.49
I said, "Big as this
is, no, it's a devil."
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So she's like,
00:20:28.69\00:20:30.03
"Well, how we're
gonna keep the flies?"
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It's a long story short,
00:20:31.53\00:20:32.86
it's closed in and then
got the windows around it.
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You still got a great view
but now in that room is your?
00:20:35.86\00:20:39.30
Worship room.
Whoo, Worship room.
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Glory. Yes, it's wonderful.
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Praise the Lord.
00:20:42.34\00:20:43.67
So he built
protection, like the armor.
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Come on.
00:20:46.31\00:20:47.64
The Lord's armor around
this with the protection,
00:20:47.68\00:20:50.45
and we need to put
on the armor of God,
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the whole armor
of God to stand firm.
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Good.
00:20:54.72\00:20:56.05
And to know as
you're talking about this
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to even understand what truth is
00:20:57.45\00:20:59.35
because as I mentioned earlier,
00:20:59.39\00:21:01.66
you know, there's
so much speculation.
00:21:01.69\00:21:03.53
Well, how do you know?
00:21:03.56\00:21:04.89
That's your thought.
00:21:04.93\00:21:06.26
That's your faith.
That's your choice.
00:21:06.29\00:21:07.76
You know, but we need
to go back like he said,
00:21:07.80\00:21:09.70
like is, like you can
speculate upon the Bible,
00:21:09.73\00:21:12.53
it is thus saith,
we have to go back
00:21:12.57\00:21:14.67
to the Word of God.
00:21:14.70\00:21:16.47
And this is good.
00:21:16.50\00:21:18.77
I love it.
00:21:18.81\00:21:20.14
Yeah, Praise the Lord.
00:21:20.18\00:21:21.51
Let's kind of...
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Oh, go ahead. Okay.
00:21:22.91\00:21:24.25
Well, I was just
gonna say this is good.
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But nowadays, how
do we put that into,
00:21:25.65\00:21:28.22
to where we are today?
00:21:28.25\00:21:29.58
May be that's
where you're going.
00:21:29.62\00:21:31.82
Well, where I was...
00:21:31.85\00:21:33.19
We can, let's do that.
00:21:33.22\00:21:34.56
And then we'll come
back to where I was going.
00:21:34.59\00:21:36.52
My point was, now
today we have doctrine,
00:21:36.56\00:21:41.20
you know, but people are saying
00:21:41.23\00:21:43.57
because of the
whole world around us,
00:21:43.60\00:21:45.87
nothing is solid.
00:21:45.90\00:21:47.24
Everything is changeable and so,
00:21:47.27\00:21:50.37
you know, they say,
00:21:50.41\00:21:51.74
there's 100 and some odd genders
00:21:51.77\00:21:53.14
when we all know,
00:21:53.17\00:21:54.51
a little kid knows
there's two, right.
00:21:54.54\00:21:56.04
A little boy and a girl
in the room without clothes
00:21:56.08\00:21:57.95
and they're embarrassingly
know that something's wrong,
00:21:57.98\00:22:00.45
there's two genders,
00:22:00.48\00:22:01.82
but there's all
of these things that,
00:22:01.85\00:22:04.49
you know, when you listen,
even in political arenas,
00:22:04.52\00:22:07.79
arenas that everything is okay.
00:22:07.82\00:22:09.89
It's whatever somebody wants,
and doctrine isn't important,
00:22:09.92\00:22:14.00
but that is now
bleeding into the church.
00:22:14.03\00:22:16.83
The wounds of the
world leading into the church
00:22:16.87\00:22:19.97
because there's people like,
00:22:20.00\00:22:21.34
well, you know, these things
aren't really that important.
00:22:21.37\00:22:24.04
And so how do we,
00:22:24.07\00:22:25.94
how do we stand firm
when it comes to doctrine,
00:22:25.97\00:22:29.04
and yet, they'll say,
"Oh, that's all legalistic."
00:22:29.08\00:22:32.35
That's, you know, all
the law stuff, all of this.
00:22:32.38\00:22:35.05
So how do we, the question is,
00:22:35.08\00:22:36.48
how do we stand
firm in the doctrine
00:22:36.52\00:22:38.72
and yet show the love
of Jesus and be balanced
00:22:38.75\00:22:41.09
as Jay talked about?
00:22:41.12\00:22:43.73
You're asking me?
00:22:43.76\00:22:45.09
Well, I'm asking anybody,
you know, is it important,
00:22:45.13\00:22:48.23
in other words,
how important is it?
00:22:48.26\00:22:50.43
And can we
compromise some on doctrines.
00:22:50.47\00:22:53.70
You know, we are
living in the 21st century.
00:22:53.74\00:22:57.01
You know, are we
held to the same?
00:22:57.04\00:22:59.61
I would think
that the question is
00:22:59.64\00:23:01.71
who's reigning
supreme in your life?
00:23:01.74\00:23:04.15
You know, who are you serving?
00:23:04.18\00:23:05.51
What you have
to have a standard.
00:23:05.55\00:23:07.88
You know, the Bible talks
about living off principle,
00:23:07.92\00:23:10.82
not feelings.
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What the world is doing
as they shift due to feelings
00:23:12.32\00:23:16.32
and not just principles.
00:23:16.36\00:23:18.06
So it's a
combination of the two.
00:23:18.09\00:23:20.10
I think somebody
who's really good
00:23:20.13\00:23:21.66
to look at their story
in the Bible is Daniel.
00:23:21.70\00:23:24.83
You know, when Daniel was
in, he was in the government,
00:23:24.87\00:23:28.87
and he wasn't,
00:23:28.90\00:23:30.41
he didn't conform to
the ways of the government
00:23:30.44\00:23:33.71
when the government was
trying to trump God's law.
00:23:33.74\00:23:37.35
I mean, Daniel stood so firm,
00:23:37.38\00:23:39.91
that all of these
people conspired against him,
00:23:39.95\00:23:43.65
people in government,
and they couldn't even,
00:23:43.69\00:23:46.12
they couldn't bring him down.
00:23:46.15\00:23:47.49
They knew that
they couldn't get him
00:23:47.52\00:23:48.86
because he was.
00:23:48.89\00:23:50.23
It says here in Daniel 6:5,
00:23:50.26\00:23:54.46
"Then these men said
00:23:54.50\00:23:55.83
we shall not find any
charge against this Daniel
00:23:55.86\00:23:58.57
unless we find it against him
concerning the law of his God."
00:23:58.60\00:24:02.07
They had to do something
crooked to try and catch a man
00:24:02.10\00:24:06.27
that was serving the Lord
and standing firm on principle
00:24:06.31\00:24:09.58
that they tried to catch him up
00:24:09.61\00:24:11.28
and then get him
in the lion's den.
00:24:11.31\00:24:15.65
And it ended up
falling back on them.
00:24:15.68\00:24:17.62
Yeah.
00:24:17.65\00:24:18.99
I think that's a
really good example,
00:24:19.02\00:24:20.36
because when
we're talking about,
00:24:20.39\00:24:22.46
you know,
00:24:22.49\00:24:23.83
how society is
converging against,
00:24:23.86\00:24:27.56
really against Christians.
00:24:27.60\00:24:29.13
I mean, Christians
are now being demonized
00:24:29.16\00:24:31.63
and looked at as weak
or intellectually inferior.
00:24:31.67\00:24:35.10
And, you know,
how do we stand firm
00:24:35.14\00:24:38.61
in the midst of all
this political correctness,
00:24:38.64\00:24:41.04
in the midst of
all of these things
00:24:41.08\00:24:43.11
that are converging against us?
00:24:43.14\00:24:44.71
How do we stand firm?
00:24:44.75\00:24:46.08
Daniel showed us he did not.
00:24:46.11\00:24:50.05
When these people,
00:24:50.09\00:24:52.02
these officials came up against
00:24:52.05\00:24:54.39
and went to the king and said,
you know, before they went,
00:24:54.42\00:24:57.93
they said, how can we get him,
00:24:57.96\00:24:59.29
the only way is through
his God because he stands firm
00:24:59.33\00:25:03.06
in everything
that he believes in.
00:25:03.10\00:25:05.17
How can we get him?
00:25:05.20\00:25:06.53
The only way is through his God.
00:25:06.57\00:25:08.64
And every day, he was praying
every day three times a day.
00:25:08.67\00:25:14.31
And he did not
lower his curtain.
00:25:14.34\00:25:17.25
Once that law was proclaimed
that you could not pray
00:25:17.28\00:25:20.25
to anyone else or
worship anyone else.
00:25:20.28\00:25:22.95
But the king, he didn't stop,
he stayed firm, he focused,
00:25:22.98\00:25:28.19
he prayed to his
God, three times a day.
00:25:28.22\00:25:31.73
And I think living by principle,
00:25:31.76\00:25:34.83
that is the way we stand firm.
00:25:34.86\00:25:37.67
You know, you
always talk about...
00:25:37.70\00:25:39.80
He's always talking
about you guy's dad,
00:25:39.83\00:25:41.84
and how he
taught you principles.
00:25:41.87\00:25:45.74
And you apply
these principles to life.
00:25:45.77\00:25:48.91
That's what the Word does.
00:25:48.94\00:25:50.75
It gives us the
principles to live by,
00:25:50.78\00:25:53.18
and they don't change.
00:25:53.21\00:25:55.08
They are timeless.
00:25:55.12\00:25:56.55
Principles are timeless.
00:25:56.58\00:25:58.42
Society might
change, mores might change.
00:25:58.45\00:26:01.39
Morals do not
change but mores change.
00:26:01.42\00:26:04.09
And so we have to
live by the principles
00:26:04.13\00:26:07.96
and that's what to me standing
firm is, living by principles.
00:26:08.00\00:26:12.73
When I would give dad,
00:26:12.77\00:26:14.10
and I know Kenny probably
never gave him a hard time
00:26:14.14\00:26:15.90
but when I did...
00:26:15.94\00:26:18.34
When I gave him a hard time,
00:26:18.37\00:26:19.71
you didn't very
much because, you know,
00:26:19.74\00:26:21.34
he didn't accept it.
00:26:21.38\00:26:24.28
But if I tried
to reason with him,
00:26:24.31\00:26:26.35
he never sassed you but
you could reason sometimes,
00:26:26.38\00:26:28.85
and I'd say but dad,
I think such and such.
00:26:28.88\00:26:31.25
He said, "Son
your opinion don't mean
00:26:31.29\00:26:32.92
a hill of beans to me."
00:26:32.95\00:26:35.82
Don't mean a
hill of beans, right?
00:26:35.86\00:26:37.19
Did you hear
that, Kenny? Oh, yeah.
00:26:37.23\00:26:38.56
Doesn't mean a hill of
beans 'cause he wanted to based
00:26:38.59\00:26:40.80
on principle.
00:26:40.83\00:26:42.40
What's the principal?
00:26:42.43\00:26:43.77
Why are you saying
where you're coming from,
00:26:43.80\00:26:45.57
is it a selfish motive?
00:26:45.60\00:26:47.20
Because he would say,
"That's just me, myself, and I.
00:26:47.24\00:26:49.20
I'm not interested
in me, myself, and I,
00:26:49.24\00:26:51.41
God put me in charge.
00:26:51.44\00:26:52.94
You're the kid,
you're the child,
00:26:52.97\00:26:54.48
and I'm here to teach
you what principle is."
00:26:54.51\00:26:57.61
But I don't care what
you think unless it's,
00:26:57.65\00:27:00.68
you know, with the Bible,
00:27:00.72\00:27:02.58
your opinions and what
kids that think at school
00:27:02.62\00:27:05.25
and you come home and said,
00:27:05.29\00:27:06.62
"Dad, the other kids are going."
00:27:06.65\00:27:07.99
He'd say, "Well,
I'll tell you what."
00:27:08.02\00:27:09.46
We'd say, "Can we go uptown
00:27:09.49\00:27:10.89
'cause all these
other kids are going."
00:27:10.93\00:27:12.26
And he would say, he'd say,
00:27:12.29\00:27:13.73
"Well, let me
tell you something."
00:27:13.76\00:27:15.10
Because we thought, we'd say,
"All the other kids are going."
00:27:15.13\00:27:17.17
He'd say, "No, not
all the kids are going."
00:27:17.20\00:27:20.47
He'd say, the kids at
11, 8, 12 weren't straight.
00:27:20.50\00:27:23.24
Well, thank you,
they're not gonna be there.
00:27:23.27\00:27:26.51
That was the end of the subject,
00:27:26.54\00:27:28.68
but with dad
it's always principle.
00:27:28.71\00:27:30.25
It was principal and it's
good because the Word of God
00:27:30.28\00:27:32.28
operates from principle.
00:27:32.31\00:27:33.72
You know, Ephesians 2:20,
00:27:33.75\00:27:36.28
there's three principles
00:27:36.32\00:27:37.65
when you're building
on a firm foundation.
00:27:37.69\00:27:40.09
And that Scripture says
is built upon the apostles.
00:27:40.12\00:27:43.53
And it's built
upon the prophets,
00:27:43.56\00:27:46.70
and it's built
upon Jesus Christ,
00:27:46.73\00:27:48.56
which is being
the chief cornerstone.
00:27:48.60\00:27:51.33
So if we build on
those three things,
00:27:51.37\00:27:54.77
we shall never go wrong.
00:27:54.80\00:27:56.64
These are the principle
00:27:56.67\00:27:58.01
that's what we're
talking about today
00:27:58.04\00:27:59.77
is how can we be firm.
00:27:59.81\00:28:01.74
Thus be firm to the end.
00:28:01.78\00:28:03.41
And I'll share a story later on
00:28:03.45\00:28:05.18
we do the more
talking about then,
00:28:05.21\00:28:06.78
because we come to that point
00:28:06.82\00:28:08.15
where we are
challenged sometime with it.
00:28:08.18\00:28:10.09
Yes. And against odds.
00:28:10.12\00:28:11.99
Yes.
00:28:12.02\00:28:13.79
It's not going to work.
00:28:13.82\00:28:15.16
There's principle, you
know, what you should do,
00:28:15.19\00:28:17.56
but everybody else has
done something different
00:28:17.59\00:28:19.56
and you're challenged.
00:28:19.59\00:28:21.06
And sometimes
even by the government.
00:28:21.10\00:28:22.86
And that's where
I wanted to go next.
00:28:22.90\00:28:26.87
When have you been
challenged in standing firm?
00:28:26.90\00:28:31.14
And how did you handle?
00:28:31.17\00:28:32.51
Well, you know, I don't,
00:28:32.54\00:28:33.88
here maybe just a
good time just to quickly
00:28:33.91\00:28:35.54
and I could relate
back some long years, Danny,
00:28:35.58\00:28:37.38
when I was in
service that we went in,
00:28:37.41\00:28:40.72
I went in as a 1-A-O,
conscientious objector,
00:28:40.75\00:28:44.49
be a medic, and went to
basic training and so on,
00:28:44.52\00:28:46.86
and that's where you
have to stand inspection.
00:28:46.89\00:28:49.62
You know, as a
Sabbath day keeper,
00:28:49.66\00:28:50.99
I went and said,
00:28:51.03\00:28:52.36
I was the
Seventh-day Adventist, you know,
00:28:52.39\00:28:53.73
but I'm the only one there
among hundreds and thousands.
00:28:53.76\00:28:56.50
And it's about every Saturday
is inspection, you know,
00:28:56.53\00:28:59.60
and the principle
00:28:59.63\00:29:00.97
that we grew up
with was Sabbath,
00:29:01.00\00:29:02.90
the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:29:02.94\00:29:04.27
You don't do
any work on that day
00:29:04.31\00:29:05.64
regardless if it goes
against principles of God's Word
00:29:05.67\00:29:07.78
or a man says you don't do it.
00:29:07.81\00:29:09.28
So I just simply said, well,
00:29:09.31\00:29:11.18
it didn't mean
'cause you were a Christian,
00:29:11.21\00:29:12.55
you do everything right.
00:29:12.58\00:29:13.92
It was instilled in my
mind that was what something
00:29:13.95\00:29:15.92
I want to do on the
seventh-day Sabbath.
00:29:15.95\00:29:17.29
Right.
00:29:17.32\00:29:18.65
So I just simply
said, then challenge
00:29:18.69\00:29:20.02
with the issue standing firm.
00:29:20.06\00:29:21.39
I just said, I'm not
gonna stand inspection.
00:29:21.42\00:29:23.02
That's a lot of years ago,
00:29:23.06\00:29:24.39
a lot of time
you just didn't say
00:29:24.43\00:29:25.76
I'm not gonna do that.
00:29:25.79\00:29:27.23
And they said, "Well, why not?"
00:29:27.26\00:29:28.60
And then they had to
go through whole process
00:29:28.63\00:29:29.96
of how it came into
service and so on, so forth.
00:29:30.00\00:29:32.43
So they said, well, you think,
you're gonna get away with it,
00:29:32.47\00:29:34.34
you're not gonna
get away with it.
00:29:34.37\00:29:35.90
You're gonna stand inspection.
00:29:35.94\00:29:37.27
And I just simply said,
"You know, by grace of God,
00:29:37.31\00:29:38.97
I'm not gonna stand inspection."
00:29:39.01\00:29:40.98
And so finally they
came to an agreement.
00:29:41.01\00:29:42.88
Juts quickly, agreement,
00:29:42.91\00:29:44.25
they said, "Well, I'll you what.
00:29:44.28\00:29:45.61
You think you're gonna
get out of it but you're not.
00:29:45.65\00:29:47.15
We're gonna have you to
stand inspection on Sunday."
00:29:47.18\00:29:50.55
So on Sunday in the
barracks when everybody else
00:29:50.59\00:29:52.89
is kind of out of it.
00:29:52.92\00:29:54.39
They had a big night,
doing whatever they do,
00:29:54.42\00:29:56.36
you know, in barracks
and everything else there.
00:29:56.39\00:29:58.26
I'm supposed to be standing tall
00:29:58.29\00:29:59.63
and everything ready.
00:29:59.66\00:30:01.00
Well, when they came in,
00:30:01.03\00:30:02.36
they had an axe to grind anyway.
00:30:02.40\00:30:03.73
They want to find
something wrong with the bed,
00:30:03.77\00:30:05.30
they want to
find something wrong
00:30:05.33\00:30:06.67
with your footlocker,
00:30:06.70\00:30:08.04
and everything
where everything was hung,
00:30:08.07\00:30:09.64
and they did their best to do
00:30:09.67\00:30:11.01
and I knew they
were gonna do it.
00:30:11.04\00:30:12.37
So I did the best, I
knew how to do, you know,
00:30:12.41\00:30:14.01
a couple times
they took the bunk
00:30:14.04\00:30:15.38
and threw it upside
down and you had to redo
00:30:15.41\00:30:17.28
and so on.
00:30:17.31\00:30:18.88
But then the guy would get
right in your face, you know...
00:30:18.91\00:30:21.35
Anyway, God will
honor, the whole point,
00:30:21.38\00:30:23.75
God will honor those
00:30:23.79\00:30:25.35
when you are put in a position
to maybe go against the world,
00:30:25.39\00:30:29.42
you're butting
against the world,
00:30:29.46\00:30:30.79
you've been
talking about here things
00:30:30.83\00:30:32.16
that are going on in the world.
00:30:32.19\00:30:33.53
Now, world doesn't
like you but against.
00:30:33.56\00:30:34.90
Right.
00:30:34.93\00:30:36.26
As a Christian
to but against them,
00:30:36.30\00:30:37.63
they don't like that.
00:30:37.67\00:30:39.00
So he just simply said,
well, I'll see you next Sunday.
00:30:39.03\00:30:41.30
You know and then
I was ready again,
00:30:41.34\00:30:43.20
third Sunday come by,
00:30:43.24\00:30:44.57
looked at me and he
was madder than a hornet.
00:30:44.61\00:30:47.28
I didn't know but he came at me,
00:30:47.31\00:30:48.64
and of course, that time
they get right in your face.
00:30:48.68\00:30:50.48
His nose was against my nose,
00:30:50.51\00:30:52.01
you stand or you
don't say anything to.
00:30:52.05\00:30:54.18
He said, "I don't
know who in the world
00:30:54.22\00:30:56.15
that you think you are.
00:30:56.18\00:30:57.89
If you think that you're gonna
make me come in every Sunday
00:30:57.92\00:31:02.09
to inspect somebody like you."
00:31:02.12\00:31:04.09
He said, "You're
out of your mind."
00:31:04.13\00:31:05.46
He said, "You don't have
to stand inspection anymore."
00:31:05.49\00:31:10.10
Okay.
00:31:10.13\00:31:11.47
Stand firm for what you
believe and God will honor that
00:31:11.50\00:31:14.57
and reward.
00:31:14.60\00:31:16.20
So I was no longer a problem
00:31:16.24\00:31:17.77
because the guy just
did not want to come in
00:31:17.81\00:31:19.64
on the wrong time and he...
00:31:19.67\00:31:21.51
Coming to the point he
felt like I was making him.
00:31:21.54\00:31:24.15
Yeah. Right.
00:31:24.18\00:31:25.51
The other one told me I had to,
00:31:25.55\00:31:26.88
but see it gets
reversed sometime.
00:31:26.92\00:31:28.25
Yeah.
00:31:28.28\00:31:29.62
Stand your ground, stand firm.
00:31:29.65\00:31:30.99
And for, I don't know
for four or five months
00:31:31.02\00:31:33.02
I never had
another inspection at all.
00:31:33.05\00:31:36.06
I just had to get out
there for inspection day
00:31:36.09\00:31:38.39
and on Sabbath I didn't want
to be around there anyway so...
00:31:38.43\00:31:40.86
God will do the work.
00:31:40.90\00:31:42.23
Thank you.
00:31:42.26\00:31:43.60
I remember a time
I was on jury duty
00:31:43.63\00:31:46.53
and we had been in
trial all week long
00:31:46.57\00:31:49.57
and the judge had told us, well,
00:31:49.60\00:31:50.97
we're gonna have to
sequester you over this,
00:31:51.01\00:31:53.11
the weekend.
00:31:53.14\00:31:54.48
Well, I knew that
week came at Sabbath
00:31:54.51\00:31:56.78
and I just kept praying about,
00:31:56.81\00:31:58.15
I didn't know
what I was gonna do.
00:31:58.18\00:32:00.02
And at the last
minute, I asked him,
00:32:00.05\00:32:02.12
if I can talk to him
and so we went in the back.
00:32:02.15\00:32:04.85
And I wish I could
remember what I said.
00:32:04.89\00:32:07.79
But all of a sudden it just
started pouring out, this law,
00:32:07.82\00:32:10.93
that law, blah, blah, blah...
00:32:10.96\00:32:12.29
Religious freedom and
ta-da, ta-da, ta-da...
00:32:12.33\00:32:14.00
Needless to say, we
were not sequestered.
00:32:14.03\00:32:15.80
Amen.
00:32:15.83\00:32:17.17
They let us off, we got
to go home and come back.
00:32:17.20\00:32:20.27
But you know,
it was just amazing
00:32:20.30\00:32:21.94
because I wanted to be
off, I knew it was important,
00:32:21.97\00:32:24.94
I asked God for help.
00:32:24.97\00:32:26.31
And he spoke
through me to the point
00:32:26.34\00:32:27.78
that I don't even
remember what I said,
00:32:27.81\00:32:29.94
but I can remember thinking wow.
00:32:29.98\00:32:32.31
Where that come from?
00:32:32.35\00:32:33.68
Yes, yes.
00:32:33.72\00:32:35.05
But it did, it really did
and he stepped in and helped.
00:32:35.08\00:32:37.82
And another thing
you asked a while ago,
00:32:37.85\00:32:39.65
how can we stand
firm and still be loving?
00:32:39.69\00:32:43.32
And I was thinking of
Daniel 2, there's a quote here,
00:32:43.36\00:32:46.19
but Daniel and God himself,
but the quote, just finishing,
00:32:46.23\00:32:50.57
it's talking about the
spirit that actuated Daniel,
00:32:50.60\00:32:53.34
but it talks here about
whether with his brethren
00:32:53.37\00:32:56.44
or others he would not swerve
00:32:56.47\00:32:59.47
from principle
while at the same time
00:32:59.51\00:33:02.14
he would not feel to manifest
a noble Christlike patience.
00:33:02.18\00:33:07.32
And you mentioned
God's the same yesterday,
00:33:07.35\00:33:09.58
today and forever
and no one can argue
00:33:09.62\00:33:13.25
with what love
that He has shown.
00:33:13.29\00:33:16.19
That's right.
00:33:16.22\00:33:17.56
What love He has given us,
00:33:17.59\00:33:19.06
and it makes a difference
if we go to people in love.
00:33:19.09\00:33:23.26
Then they don't feel
like they had been attacked,
00:33:23.30\00:33:25.43
they feel like you
really care for them.
00:33:25.47\00:33:27.74
That's good.
00:33:27.77\00:33:29.10
That's good. What about you?
00:33:29.14\00:33:30.71
Was there a time when you
did or did not stand firm?
00:33:30.74\00:33:33.38
Well, I think more of the times
probably I didn't over my life
00:33:33.41\00:33:37.41
or you've misrepresented.
00:33:37.45\00:33:39.51
Yeah, sure.
00:33:39.55\00:33:40.88
Kenny and I used
to play over 100 games
00:33:40.92\00:33:43.02
at fastpitch
softball every summer,
00:33:43.05\00:33:44.85
you know, play
doubleheaders two, three nights.
00:33:44.89\00:33:47.62
We work all day and
then do that or weekends,
00:33:47.66\00:33:50.29
but we thought we
were standing firm
00:33:50.33\00:33:52.49
because we told
the guys on our team,
00:33:52.53\00:33:54.36
we're not gonna play on Sabbath.
00:33:54.40\00:33:56.70
You know, we
won't play on Sabbath,
00:33:56.73\00:33:58.47
but what we would do is,
00:33:58.50\00:34:00.24
we would, Jay, if sundown
was 8 o'clock Friday evening,
00:34:00.27\00:34:04.47
and we were
playing in a tournament
00:34:04.51\00:34:06.27
at about two minutes till eight,
00:34:06.31\00:34:07.81
we'd take
ourselves out of the game,
00:34:07.84\00:34:09.71
and then we'd go home.
00:34:09.74\00:34:11.08
But then Sabbath
evening and for team,
00:34:11.11\00:34:13.01
more on we're playing the next,
00:34:13.05\00:34:14.95
you know, Sabbath and
it was gonna be evening
00:34:14.98\00:34:16.85
maybe the game started at seven.
00:34:16.89\00:34:18.89
So we'd get in our ball suites
00:34:18.92\00:34:20.26
and drive out
to the ball diamond
00:34:20.29\00:34:22.19
sometimes and sit in
the car and wait till 8:01,
00:34:22.22\00:34:25.79
and then we can get out
00:34:25.83\00:34:27.16
and go put
ourselves in the game.
00:34:27.20\00:34:28.53
Now that was very legalistic.
00:34:28.56\00:34:30.43
Yes.
00:34:30.47\00:34:31.80
It was very, you know,
but we were trying to do,
00:34:31.83\00:34:33.54
we were raised kind of in
a legalistic comrade books
00:34:33.57\00:34:35.94
we were loving but they still,
00:34:35.97\00:34:37.47
you know, a lot of
things was do's and don'ts
00:34:37.51\00:34:39.41
more than the love aspect.
00:34:39.44\00:34:41.64
I think just for
me I had to get older
00:34:41.68\00:34:43.95
and more mature and,
00:34:43.98\00:34:45.31
and after the
loss of Melody's mother
00:34:45.35\00:34:47.95
and then I saw Melody,
00:34:47.98\00:34:49.32
11 years old willing to
sing for her mother's funeral
00:34:49.35\00:34:52.69
when she had a broken
arm, and cuts, and bruises,
00:34:52.72\00:34:54.72
and all these things.
00:34:54.76\00:34:56.09
I finally said, Lord, I
want that kind of relationship.
00:34:56.12\00:34:58.63
When I asked for that
child like relationship,
00:34:58.66\00:35:01.26
then I began to
understand love and so.
00:35:01.30\00:35:04.23
Now, if we had do-overs,
00:35:04.27\00:35:05.87
which we don't go back
00:35:05.90\00:35:07.57
'cause we probably
did more harm than good.
00:35:07.60\00:35:10.21
Sometimes because
I knew we were right,
00:35:10.24\00:35:12.71
but the way we did it.
00:35:12.74\00:35:14.08
I remember one time
that I got into this argument
00:35:14.11\00:35:17.15
when I was in
about in the third grade
00:35:17.18\00:35:18.51
with the kid at school
about Sabbath versus Sunday.
00:35:18.55\00:35:22.22
I went to public school,
00:35:22.25\00:35:23.59
so I took my Bible to school
and we went outside recess,
00:35:23.62\00:35:28.02
and we were so
upset at each other,
00:35:28.06\00:35:30.29
we got in a fight.
00:35:30.33\00:35:32.03
So I said, you're not going.
00:35:32.06\00:35:34.33
So here I'm thinking I'm doing
some good showing him this.
00:35:34.36\00:35:37.63
Doing a Bible
study, ended up in a fight.
00:35:37.67\00:35:40.74
And I ended up
hitting him in the nose.
00:35:40.77\00:35:42.10
That sounds more you were at.
00:35:42.14\00:35:43.71
Yeah.
00:35:43.74\00:35:45.14
Good, Jason.
00:35:45.17\00:35:46.74
When I was a little
kid, I had a friend,
00:35:46.78\00:35:50.28
he was of a different faith
and he didn't believe in Jesus.
00:35:50.31\00:35:53.88
He didn't believe that
Jesus was the Son of God.
00:35:53.92\00:35:56.52
And so he would say
certain things about Jesus
00:35:56.55\00:35:59.05
and I was a little kid,
00:35:59.09\00:36:00.42
and I believed in
Jesus and everything,
00:36:00.46\00:36:03.83
and he would say these things
00:36:03.86\00:36:05.73
and it would make me mad
so I punched him in his face.
00:36:05.76\00:36:09.26
And then I make him take
back what he said about Jesus
00:36:09.30\00:36:14.17
and then, I thought like
I was fighting for the Lord.
00:36:14.20\00:36:18.17
I was so
misguided in my approach.
00:36:18.21\00:36:20.84
I mean all of
that is part of it.
00:36:20.88\00:36:22.68
As we, you know, we stand for...
00:36:22.71\00:36:24.68
It's not how much you
know, it's who you know.
00:36:24.71\00:36:26.82
Right. That's right.
00:36:26.85\00:36:28.18
There you go.
00:36:28.22\00:36:29.55
We think, well,
we know all the laws,
00:36:29.58\00:36:30.92
and we know the doctrine,
00:36:30.95\00:36:32.29
and we know all of
this but without love,
00:36:32.32\00:36:33.92
this is sounding brass,
00:36:33.96\00:36:35.29
tinkling cymbal all
that kind stuff you know,
00:36:35.32\00:36:37.63
because it's not
there so as you get older,
00:36:37.66\00:36:40.30
I'm so thankful that God,
00:36:40.33\00:36:41.86
you know, has
mercy and compassion.
00:36:41.90\00:36:43.47
Yes. Oh, I too.
00:36:43.50\00:36:46.10
It's easier for me to look back
and see when I didn't stand...
00:36:46.13\00:36:50.91
If I didn't stand right,
00:36:50.94\00:36:52.27
I stood for
something but you know,
00:36:52.31\00:36:54.21
but we all have to stand.
00:36:54.24\00:36:55.58
Our dad used to tell us,
00:36:55.61\00:36:57.15
"Boys, if you don't
stand for something,
00:36:57.18\00:36:58.51
you'll fall for it."
00:36:58.55\00:36:59.88
Yes.
00:36:59.91\00:37:01.25
So, you know,
when you find something
00:37:01.28\00:37:02.95
that you believe in, test it.
00:37:02.98\00:37:05.05
The Bible says try me, you know,
00:37:05.09\00:37:08.42
and so to the
law and to testimony
00:37:08.46\00:37:10.59
if they speak not
according to this word,
00:37:10.63\00:37:12.23
there is no light in them.
00:37:12.26\00:37:13.60
That's right.
00:37:13.63\00:37:14.96
And so, that's
what we have to do.
00:37:15.00\00:37:16.33
So today, if I
could have do-overs,
00:37:16.36\00:37:18.87
I'd go back and
change but the good part is,
00:37:18.90\00:37:21.14
you don't have to go back
and do anything differently.
00:37:21.17\00:37:24.01
You just, today, Lord,
come into my heart, come in,
00:37:24.04\00:37:27.48
come in today, come in to stay,
00:37:27.51\00:37:29.01
come in my heart,
Lord Jesus, old song says.
00:37:29.04\00:37:32.38
Yes.
00:37:32.41\00:37:33.75
And then say, Lord,
You please forgive me.
00:37:33.78\00:37:35.15
And when we're sorry,
00:37:35.18\00:37:36.52
He's faithful and just
to forgive us of our sin
00:37:36.55\00:37:38.49
and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
00:37:38.52\00:37:40.96
Now, we develop
that relationship,
00:37:40.99\00:37:43.02
now we have
something we can go tell.
00:37:43.06\00:37:45.83
When I first started 3ABN,
00:37:45.86\00:37:47.43
I would travel
and go to churches
00:37:47.46\00:37:51.57
and it was like, what
am I gonna say, you know,
00:37:51.60\00:37:55.30
but after a while now it's like,
00:37:55.34\00:37:57.61
what I have to leave out.
00:37:57.64\00:37:58.97
Yeah.
00:37:59.01\00:38:00.34
So much to tell
because of experience
00:38:00.38\00:38:02.58
in relationship over
the years in seeing God.
00:38:02.61\00:38:06.51
Now, it's like every
time we go, we went last week,
00:38:06.55\00:38:10.25
you know, out of
state and that was, oh, man,
00:38:10.29\00:38:13.15
I wish I had more time
00:38:13.19\00:38:14.52
I could share this
to encourage the folk.
00:38:14.56\00:38:17.36
So thing is don't
worry about the past.
00:38:17.39\00:38:19.83
Amen. Yes.
00:38:19.86\00:38:21.20
Just worry about
today and in future
00:38:21.23\00:38:22.66
when you come to Jesus,
00:38:22.70\00:38:24.10
you know, you get
to start brand new.
00:38:24.13\00:38:25.60
You do.
00:38:25.63\00:38:26.97
That's a blessing.
00:38:27.00\00:38:28.34
I remember there was a time,
00:38:28.37\00:38:30.21
the thing that
stands out for me most
00:38:30.24\00:38:33.91
when I did not stand
firm was, I was singing at...
00:38:33.94\00:38:38.68
A producer
friend of mine asked me
00:38:38.71\00:38:40.42
to come and do a session.
00:38:40.45\00:38:42.28
I was out of the
church at that time.
00:38:42.32\00:38:44.75
And she asked me to come
and do joint recording session
00:38:44.79\00:38:49.42
with someone
that she was producing
00:38:49.46\00:38:52.56
who was a psychic.
00:38:52.59\00:38:53.93
Oh! Well.
00:38:53.96\00:38:55.30
And so I knew as a Christian...
00:38:55.33\00:38:57.30
I would still
consider myself a Christian,
00:38:57.33\00:38:58.93
even though I
wasn't going to church
00:38:58.97\00:39:00.30
and I knew that wasn't to have
any dealings with a psychic.
00:39:00.34\00:39:04.81
But I went and I
sang on the song,
00:39:04.84\00:39:07.58
and at the end of the
song, I was headed out.
00:39:07.61\00:39:11.91
And she said to me,
the psychic, she said,
00:39:11.95\00:39:14.35
"Can I speak to
you for a minute?"
00:39:14.38\00:39:16.15
So I thought she
was gonna say thank you
00:39:16.18\00:39:18.05
for singing on this session.
00:39:18.09\00:39:21.16
So I said, "Yeah."
00:39:21.19\00:39:22.72
So she said, she
began to give me a reading.
00:39:22.76\00:39:27.76
Well, have mercy.
00:39:27.80\00:39:29.13
And she would say
to me, she would say,
00:39:29.16\00:39:30.87
she looked to the
side and she would say,
00:39:30.90\00:39:33.74
"Okay, thank you, thank you."
00:39:33.77\00:39:35.10
And come back to me.
00:39:35.14\00:39:36.47
She was actually
getting a word from a demon.
00:39:36.50\00:39:41.14
And I was standing
there, instead of saying,
00:39:41.18\00:39:45.48
you know, what?
00:39:45.51\00:39:47.72
I've gotta go. Yeah.
00:39:47.75\00:39:49.08
I was like Eve.
00:39:49.12\00:39:50.85
I was
mesmerized, and guess what?
00:39:50.89\00:39:56.49
I was standing at that tree
00:39:56.52\00:39:59.39
and listening to the
serpent and beginning to...
00:39:59.43\00:40:03.87
She was telling me
things that no one would know
00:40:03.90\00:40:08.74
and instead of me standing
firm and saying, you know what?
00:40:08.77\00:40:14.71
Stop.
00:40:14.74\00:40:16.14
I have to go.
00:40:16.18\00:40:18.28
I stood there and I
listened and when I left,
00:40:18.31\00:40:23.39
I felt I've got in a cab
to go back to my apartment,
00:40:23.42\00:40:27.99
and I began to cry
because I knew I let God down.
00:40:28.02\00:40:32.39
I knew that by standing
there and listening to that,
00:40:32.43\00:40:36.50
I had allowed
myself to get caught up
00:40:36.53\00:40:38.90
into what she was telling me.
00:40:38.93\00:40:41.64
I was Eve at that
tree, but what you said, Dan,
00:40:41.67\00:40:45.51
is so true that we serve a God
00:40:45.54\00:40:48.01
who will forgive us
if we don't stand firm,
00:40:48.04\00:40:50.61
if you make a mistake.
00:40:50.65\00:40:51.98
Yes.
00:40:52.01\00:40:53.35
Don't say, well,
now I've done it,
00:40:53.38\00:40:55.15
I've done the worst thing
and now God won't forgive me.
00:40:55.18\00:40:58.35
No, He wants you to
come to Him and say,
00:40:58.39\00:41:00.56
Lord, I'm sorry.
00:41:00.59\00:41:01.92
That's why that song
I sang just once more.
00:41:01.96\00:41:04.73
It means something to me
00:41:04.76\00:41:06.09
because I know
I've made mistakes,
00:41:06.13\00:41:07.83
but I know that I
serve a faithful God,
00:41:07.86\00:41:11.13
a high priest
who have been touched
00:41:11.17\00:41:13.44
with my infirmities,
00:41:13.47\00:41:14.80
with the feeling
of my infirmities
00:41:14.84\00:41:16.77
one was tempted
in all points yet
00:41:16.81\00:41:19.14
without sin.
00:41:19.17\00:41:20.51
And so I can come boldly to Him,
00:41:20.54\00:41:22.84
where I can obtain mercy
00:41:22.88\00:41:24.21
and find grace to
help in time of need
00:41:24.25\00:41:26.78
and that's what you can do.
00:41:26.82\00:41:28.62
If you have not stood
firm, if you've made a mistake,
00:41:28.65\00:41:32.69
which we all do.
00:41:32.72\00:41:35.42
Thank the Lord
that He is righteous
00:41:35.46\00:41:38.13
and He is sinless,
00:41:38.16\00:41:39.69
and He is pure
00:41:39.73\00:41:41.50
because if it was
based on our righteousness
00:41:41.53\00:41:43.73
and our purity,
we never make it.
00:41:43.77\00:41:46.37
So I just praise the Lord
that we can in Him stand firm
00:41:46.40\00:41:51.67
and when we mess up,
we can say I'm sorry.
00:41:51.71\00:41:54.18
That's a good part. Praise God.
00:41:54.21\00:41:55.54
That's right.
00:41:55.58\00:41:56.91
Yeah, the High
Priest, amen. Have mercy.
00:41:56.95\00:41:58.28
He doesn't treat us the
way we treat one another.
00:41:58.31\00:42:00.95
Yes, or the way we treat Him.
00:42:00.98\00:42:03.12
That's true.
00:42:03.15\00:42:04.49
But you realize how
you got in that situation
00:42:04.52\00:42:07.09
is that from your own words
00:42:07.12\00:42:09.16
that you consider
yourself a Christian,
00:42:09.19\00:42:11.89
but yet really
you know you weren't.
00:42:11.93\00:42:13.40
In other words, you were
doing things on your own.
00:42:13.43\00:42:16.80
In other words, you
didn't test the bubble.
00:42:16.83\00:42:18.73
Your own perception,
it was your own vision,
00:42:18.77\00:42:20.97
your own eyesight,
00:42:21.00\00:42:22.90
you were kind of
justifying though you...
00:42:22.94\00:42:25.24
And that's interesting thing,
you feel like you're Christian,
00:42:25.27\00:42:29.44
but really, no, you're not.
00:42:29.48\00:42:30.81
You're not living
right, what it is?
00:42:30.85\00:42:32.18
Right.
00:42:32.21\00:42:33.55
But you delude
yourself into thinking that...
00:42:33.58\00:42:35.88
Well, I still pray, well,
00:42:35.92\00:42:38.19
I still read my Bible sometimes,
00:42:38.22\00:42:40.16
well, I don't...
00:42:40.19\00:42:41.52
And at that time,
00:42:41.56\00:42:42.89
I wasn't working on the Sabbath,
00:42:42.92\00:42:44.26
but it wasn't about the works.
00:42:44.29\00:42:46.23
It was about my relationship
and who was king in my life,
00:42:46.26\00:42:51.03
who was sovereign in
my life, who was my Lord.
00:42:51.07\00:42:54.54
Not just my
Savior but my Lord Jesus.
00:42:54.57\00:42:57.54
At the time I was not walking
with Him the way I should
00:42:57.57\00:43:02.51
and that distorted
my view of who I was.
00:43:02.54\00:43:06.75
So today that same
situation you would like,
00:43:06.78\00:43:09.95
you wouldn't look in.
00:43:09.98\00:43:11.32
I wouldn't even go
to sing for that person.
00:43:11.35\00:43:14.32
I wouldn't be in that,
00:43:14.36\00:43:15.69
that wouldn't even be an option.
00:43:15.72\00:43:17.56
Yeah, and as
you were doing like,
00:43:17.59\00:43:19.39
Kenny and I, you
were doing the music
00:43:19.43\00:43:20.80
the way we were doing.
00:43:20.83\00:43:22.16
At least should say
me, I can't speak to him...
00:43:22.20\00:43:23.53
Yeah, I was there too.
00:43:23.57\00:43:24.90
Playing softball,
00:43:24.93\00:43:26.27
even doing a
softball or basketball thing,
00:43:26.30\00:43:28.27
and we felt like we were,
00:43:28.30\00:43:30.44
but now you look
back on it and you say,
00:43:30.47\00:43:32.37
oh, Lord, thank
You for Your mercy.
00:43:32.41\00:43:33.74
Oh, yes.
00:43:33.78\00:43:35.11
We didn't have to
worry about so much
00:43:35.14\00:43:36.48
when you were talking
about worry about the bubble,
00:43:36.51\00:43:37.85
we didn't even have the level.
00:43:37.88\00:43:39.21
Yeah.
00:43:39.25\00:43:40.58
You know, if you think about it,
00:43:40.62\00:43:42.18
that's how far but we thought.
00:43:42.22\00:43:44.02
That's what
lukewarmness will do.
00:43:44.05\00:43:46.22
You know, as
Christians when we're lukewarm
00:43:46.25\00:43:48.92
we see with different eyes,
00:43:48.96\00:43:51.73
it's not spiritual eyes anymore,
00:43:51.76\00:43:53.09
it's actually
the eyes of an enemy.
00:43:53.13\00:43:54.50
Doesn't want you out
doing, maybe just horrible,
00:43:54.53\00:43:55.96
horrible things,
00:43:56.00\00:43:57.33
but he wants you
infringing on those things
00:43:57.37\00:43:58.70
that you know better
00:43:58.73\00:44:00.07
that will lead
you into worse things
00:44:00.10\00:44:01.94
as you submit it and give in.
00:44:01.97\00:44:04.07
So, you know,
00:44:04.11\00:44:05.77
you read and
Ellen White talks about,
00:44:05.81\00:44:07.38
there's the mind
that's not totally
00:44:07.41\00:44:09.78
given to Christ, the
enemy has full control.
00:44:09.81\00:44:12.65
Have mercy.
00:44:12.68\00:44:14.02
Think about the
mind that's not 100%
00:44:14.05\00:44:15.78
committed to Christ...
00:44:15.82\00:44:17.15
That's true.
00:44:17.19\00:44:18.52
The enemy has full
possession and that bothers me,
00:44:18.55\00:44:20.89
that worries me.
00:44:20.92\00:44:22.26
Yes. Concerns.
00:44:22.29\00:44:24.03
When you said lukewarm,
00:44:24.06\00:44:25.63
that is so true
because you're naked,
00:44:25.66\00:44:28.63
and wretched, and blind,
but you don't realize it.
00:44:28.66\00:44:31.13
What you think you're seeing.
00:44:31.17\00:44:32.73
You're thinking, you see
lot better than most people.
00:44:32.77\00:44:34.14
You know, I don't need anything,
00:44:34.17\00:44:35.50
I'm fine.
00:44:35.54\00:44:36.87
But you realize that, you
know, later you realize it,
00:44:36.91\00:44:40.68
you were naked, and
blind, and wretched.
00:44:40.71\00:44:42.74
It's a process.
00:44:42.78\00:44:44.11
It's a process of
sanctification to get us
00:44:44.15\00:44:46.72
to the point
where we can stand firm.
00:44:46.75\00:44:49.32
It's not something that happens
00:44:49.35\00:44:51.29
just maybe the first
time you pray about it.
00:44:51.32\00:44:53.76
It's a day by day
process, it's a change.
00:44:53.79\00:44:57.69
You said who was
thought of your life.
00:44:57.73\00:44:59.63
I guarantee until you begin
to really commit to prayer,
00:44:59.66\00:45:03.87
really commit to
study the other things,
00:45:03.90\00:45:07.17
we're still ahead of
God in your heart and mind.
00:45:07.20\00:45:09.84
It's with all of us,
my life really changed,
00:45:09.87\00:45:13.17
your life can change
00:45:13.21\00:45:15.04
once you really commit
to spending time with Him
00:45:15.08\00:45:19.08
before anything else.
00:45:19.11\00:45:20.95
Don't let the TV be
turned on or these are really,
00:45:20.98\00:45:24.72
you've got to really watch,
00:45:24.75\00:45:27.09
and I like to study with them
but we've got to be careful.
00:45:27.12\00:45:30.33
We put God first, we
eat, you talked about food,
00:45:30.36\00:45:33.40
we eat of the Word
00:45:33.43\00:45:34.76
before we eat of
any fleshly food, right?
00:45:34.80\00:45:37.20
When I say flesh,
I mean physical food.
00:45:37.23\00:45:39.13
Yes. Thank you.
00:45:39.17\00:45:40.50
So we eat of God's words,
00:45:40.54\00:45:41.87
we pray first thing
00:45:41.90\00:45:43.24
because
otherwise the enemy comes
00:45:43.27\00:45:44.61
in to steal, kill, and destroy.
00:45:44.64\00:45:46.01
He'll steal that
time away from us.
00:45:46.04\00:45:47.54
Absolutely.
00:45:47.58\00:45:49.18
But your life can change
00:45:49.21\00:45:51.45
and you can become
as Mrs. White says,
00:45:51.48\00:45:54.12
"God is looking for men
and women who are straight
00:45:54.15\00:45:57.15
as steel, who will not bend
00:45:57.19\00:45:59.15
with everyone wind of doctrine."
00:45:59.19\00:46:00.99
And we're being hit with
a lot of wind of doctrine
00:46:01.02\00:46:03.73
that is so close to the truth.
00:46:03.76\00:46:06.36
So close, why?
00:46:06.39\00:46:08.06
Because he was in
the kingdom of heaven.
00:46:08.10\00:46:09.90
That's right.
00:46:09.93\00:46:11.27
He knows what the
Spirit of God is like
00:46:11.30\00:46:13.44
and he imitates
it nearly to a tee.
00:46:13.47\00:46:16.87
But there will be a percentage
00:46:16.91\00:46:18.57
that's all that
we can be deceived by
00:46:18.61\00:46:20.94
if we don't go
back to that course.
00:46:20.98\00:46:23.14
That's right. That's right.
00:46:23.18\00:46:24.91
1 Corinthians 16:13 says,
00:46:24.95\00:46:27.58
"Stay alert,
stand firm in the faith,
00:46:27.62\00:46:30.35
show courage, be strong."
00:46:30.39\00:46:33.12
Why do you think
these characteristics
00:46:33.15\00:46:35.19
are grouped together?
00:46:35.22\00:46:37.79
Stay alert, stand firm
in the faith, show courage,
00:46:37.83\00:46:43.37
be strong,
especially in these times.
00:46:43.40\00:46:46.84
Why do you think
00:46:46.87\00:46:48.20
these particular
characteristics are?
00:46:48.24\00:46:50.47
Well, you have to be
aware of your surroundings
00:46:50.51\00:46:53.01
and what's going on around you,
00:46:53.04\00:46:54.48
you know, even in
the spiritual sense,
00:46:54.51\00:46:56.44
you know, there are things
00:46:56.48\00:46:57.81
that it's like that
creeping compromise.
00:46:57.85\00:47:00.05
There's things that
are packaged in a way
00:47:00.08\00:47:02.05
where it seems like oh,
00:47:02.08\00:47:03.42
this is good, where,
you know, like, for example,
00:47:03.45\00:47:06.05
meditation, you know,
00:47:06.09\00:47:08.72
we're to meditate
on the Word of God
00:47:08.76\00:47:10.66
not to empty our minds out
and allow things to come in.
00:47:10.69\00:47:14.90
So we have to stay alert
00:47:14.93\00:47:16.36
on this slight
twist of the enemy.
00:47:16.40\00:47:18.90
We have to stand
firm in the faith
00:47:18.93\00:47:21.57
because we are to
be unwavering in that.
00:47:21.60\00:47:24.97
You know, God is
so faithful to us,
00:47:25.01\00:47:27.01
we need to be faithful to Him,
00:47:27.04\00:47:28.68
and we need to be
taking in His Word.
00:47:28.71\00:47:32.15
You know, when you
look at Christ's life,
00:47:32.18\00:47:34.42
and what He did
when He was tempted
00:47:34.45\00:47:36.08
in all of those things,
00:47:36.12\00:47:37.45
He stood firm in His faith
00:47:37.49\00:47:39.19
and He knew the Word so
well that when the devil
00:47:39.22\00:47:43.69
tried to throw in one or two
00:47:43.73\00:47:45.29
or three words
that were different
00:47:45.33\00:47:47.40
than the original
message, He didn't go for that.
00:47:47.43\00:47:51.73
So you have to
stand firm in the faith,
00:47:51.77\00:47:53.77
you have to show
courage and be strong,
00:47:53.80\00:47:55.87
because you know,
00:47:55.90\00:47:57.41
there's gonna be
those scary times.
00:47:57.44\00:47:59.44
There are those scary moments.
00:47:59.47\00:48:01.24
You know, think about the
time where Shadrach, Meshach,
00:48:01.28\00:48:03.65
and Abednego were
about to get thrown
00:48:03.68\00:48:05.41
and they did get
thrown into the fiery furnace,
00:48:05.45\00:48:09.62
but they stood firm and
who was in there with them?
00:48:09.65\00:48:12.32
Christ.
00:48:12.35\00:48:13.69
Christ came down there,
He's in there with them,
00:48:13.72\00:48:15.06
so when we stand firm,
we're not standing alone.
00:48:15.09\00:48:18.56
When we're having to
be courageous and strong,
00:48:18.59\00:48:20.86
we're not doing it alone.
00:48:20.90\00:48:22.43
Absolutely.
00:48:22.46\00:48:24.67
And when you summit and
commit your life to Jesus,
00:48:24.70\00:48:28.17
and you're
standing on the solid rock,
00:48:28.20\00:48:30.44
it gives you peace of mind.
00:48:30.47\00:48:32.14
Yes.
00:48:32.17\00:48:33.51
That in a troubled
world is invaluable.
00:48:33.54\00:48:37.71
I would venture to say
there are many billionaires
00:48:37.75\00:48:40.22
who would trade all that
money for peace of mind, right?
00:48:40.25\00:48:44.22
Because you have the
peace of mind because you know
00:48:44.25\00:48:48.62
that based on the Word of God,
00:48:48.66\00:48:50.29
so you continually go
back to the Word of God.
00:48:50.33\00:48:53.19
And so, you know, our
doctrines are important
00:48:53.23\00:48:56.83
because they are the
glue that holds us together.
00:48:56.87\00:48:59.93
Otherwise you
you're tossing to and fro,
00:48:59.97\00:49:02.60
you're going here and there,
00:49:02.64\00:49:03.97
and you always
confused and always questions
00:49:04.01\00:49:07.48
and the Bible says,
00:49:07.51\00:49:08.84
we shouldn't be blown
by every wind of doctrine.
00:49:08.88\00:49:10.21
Thank you.
00:49:10.25\00:49:11.58
So the only way that happens
is to stay in the Word of God
00:49:11.61\00:49:14.62
to know what it is,
00:49:14.65\00:49:15.98
what the Bible
says to say, Lord,
00:49:16.02\00:49:17.45
I'm willing to do that,
00:49:17.49\00:49:18.82
Lord, what do you want me to do?
00:49:18.85\00:49:20.56
I can tell you ever
since we started 3ABN,
00:49:20.59\00:49:23.66
I've never once and I'm
sure Kenny would say this,
00:49:23.69\00:49:25.96
never once ever
doubted this was of the Lord
00:49:25.99\00:49:28.36
or this is what
I'm supposed to do.
00:49:28.40\00:49:30.43
And anybody that knows
me before 3ABN can tell you,
00:49:30.47\00:49:33.44
I went from here
to there to there.
00:49:33.47\00:49:35.40
I jump on, you
know, different things.
00:49:35.44\00:49:37.41
I did colporteuring
for while, you know,
00:49:37.44\00:49:39.64
then got in
construction, I tried insurance,
00:49:39.67\00:49:42.08
I do anything,
00:49:42.11\00:49:43.45
you know, when I was in
school I would do, you know,
00:49:43.48\00:49:46.18
all I wanted to do
is get out of school,
00:49:46.21\00:49:47.82
you know, so I can go play ball.
00:49:47.85\00:49:49.58
Some kind of do this,
00:49:49.62\00:49:50.95
do that and the
other but when 3ABN came,
00:49:50.99\00:49:54.56
I've never looked
back, never said it, boy,
00:49:54.59\00:49:57.09
I wonder if I
really did the right thing.
00:49:57.13\00:49:58.96
Always, no matter what
happened and most of the darts
00:49:58.99\00:50:03.23
come from within.
00:50:03.26\00:50:04.93
I don't have,
it's not the Catholics,
00:50:04.97\00:50:06.97
and the Muslims and, you know,
00:50:07.00\00:50:08.97
people non-Christians out there
00:50:09.00\00:50:11.41
who were targeting
3ABN, or who hate 3ABN,
00:50:11.44\00:50:14.84
or make the phone calls,
00:50:14.88\00:50:16.21
and write the letters
and have even come trying
00:50:16.24\00:50:18.51
to kill us physically.
00:50:18.55\00:50:19.91
And that's not, you know,
00:50:19.95\00:50:22.12
and I have had
that on the outside,
00:50:22.15\00:50:23.69
but not so much inside
but the spiritual warfare,
00:50:23.72\00:50:27.19
the verbal and all of
this comes from within usually.
00:50:27.22\00:50:30.83
It's people who make claim,
they're part of what you are,
00:50:30.86\00:50:35.16
but they hate
00:50:35.20\00:50:36.53
because you
don't do what they say.
00:50:36.56\00:50:38.00
And so, I don't want to
get in more detail about it.
00:50:38.03\00:50:40.84
But part of it is this,
that when you stand firm,
00:50:40.87\00:50:45.07
expect you're going
to have tremendous trial.
00:50:45.11\00:50:48.51
Expect you're gonna
have tremendous attacks.
00:50:48.54\00:50:51.28
That's right.
00:50:51.31\00:50:52.65
But the devil can
only attack you as much
00:50:52.68\00:50:55.38
as you allow him spiritually.
00:50:55.42\00:50:57.42
So the devil, you don't
have to worry about him to say,
00:50:57.45\00:50:59.89
oh, boy, he's scared me.
00:50:59.92\00:51:01.32
No, get thee
behind me Satan, you know,
00:51:01.36\00:51:04.43
in the name of Jesus
every knee shall bow,
00:51:04.46\00:51:06.66
every tongue will
confess that Jesus Christ
00:51:06.70\00:51:09.03
is Lord.
00:51:09.06\00:51:10.40
So you can have a peace of mind,
00:51:10.43\00:51:11.83
but when people
come into physical
00:51:11.87\00:51:13.87
you can say, you know what?
00:51:13.90\00:51:15.24
I'm very thankful
someone said not too long ago,
00:51:15.27\00:51:18.91
if I have to take 3ABN down
to get to Danny, I will do it.
00:51:18.94\00:51:23.68
And I said, praise the Lord,
because now I feel protected.
00:51:23.71\00:51:27.18
Yeah.
00:51:27.22\00:51:28.55
Because the idea was if I
had to take 3ABN down to get
00:51:28.58\00:51:31.99
to Danny, then I'm
like, oh, praise the Lord,
00:51:32.02\00:51:33.56
now I'm gonna take
3ABN down that's God's,
00:51:33.59\00:51:36.02
so, you know,
hey, that's much better
00:51:36.06\00:51:37.99
than somebody saying,
I'm going after Danny.
00:51:38.03\00:51:40.30
I'm just a human being you know,
00:51:40.33\00:51:41.93
I can fail and fall in many ways
00:51:41.96\00:51:44.10
but when you say
I'm going to take 3ABN,
00:51:44.13\00:51:46.20
I would praise
the Lord for that.
00:51:46.23\00:51:48.04
But, so my thing
is when you're secure,
00:51:48.07\00:51:51.17
and you know
you're in God's will,
00:51:51.21\00:51:53.54
there is a piece
that money can't buy.
00:51:53.58\00:51:55.78
That's right.
00:51:55.81\00:51:57.15
And so, we don't lose
sleep over what people say
00:51:57.18\00:52:00.52
or what they think or bad letter
00:52:00.55\00:52:02.95
or ugly things
people say because you know,
00:52:02.98\00:52:06.15
you're doing what God
has called you to do it,
00:52:06.19\00:52:08.39
and He has a plan
for every one of you.
00:52:08.42\00:52:10.96
Those of you watching today,
listening by radio, online,
00:52:10.99\00:52:15.10
God has a plan for your life.
00:52:15.13\00:52:16.80
There is no substitute for.
00:52:16.83\00:52:18.50
You can look all
around the world.
00:52:18.53\00:52:20.37
A friend told me, he said,
00:52:20.40\00:52:21.74
I felt like he ended up
singing in gospel group.
00:52:21.77\00:52:24.87
He said all my
life is like the earth
00:52:24.91\00:52:26.51
was a bunch of footprint
00:52:26.54\00:52:27.94
and I would just go
from one set of footprints
00:52:27.98\00:52:29.98
and say maybe this is mine,
00:52:30.01\00:52:32.18
then a little bit later,
no, they didn't quite fit,
00:52:32.21\00:52:34.68
then I go to this one,
maybe that footprint's mine,
00:52:34.72\00:52:37.29
but he said soon as
I stepped into this,
00:52:37.32\00:52:40.02
that's what God called me to do.
00:52:40.06\00:52:41.39
Amen. Amen.
00:52:41.42\00:52:42.76
I am about 3ABN, I knew
immediately that was it.
00:52:42.79\00:52:45.93
Am I perfect? No.
00:52:45.96\00:52:47.30
Do I make tremendous mistakes?
00:52:47.33\00:52:48.66
Yes.
00:52:48.70\00:52:50.03
But you know what?
00:52:50.07\00:52:51.40
I can fall back on the Lord
Jesus Christ just like you can.
00:52:51.43\00:52:53.40
He's willing to
forgive and forget.
00:52:53.44\00:52:55.24
Amen. Amen.
00:52:55.27\00:52:56.60
Good. Awesome.
00:52:56.64\00:52:57.97
I think we
answered that question.
00:52:58.01\00:52:59.34
Why were those
particular traits,
00:52:59.37\00:53:03.38
those
characteristics in one place,
00:53:03.41\00:53:05.45
stay alert, stand
firm in the faith,
00:53:05.48\00:53:07.52
show courage, be strong,
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because we're
gonna get attacked.
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Yes. Oh, yeah.
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That's why.
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And I believe it
that's why Paul said that
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because he knew that
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when you stand firm in the Lord,
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you're going to be attacked.
00:53:22.50\00:53:24.30
Yeah, you're standing
firm, we still need a voice.
00:53:24.33\00:53:28.17
Why?
00:53:28.20\00:53:29.54
When you stand firm, we say,
sometime people say stand firm,
00:53:29.57\00:53:31.21
I'm just doing this but
we have to be proclaiming
00:53:31.24\00:53:33.61
something too.
00:53:33.64\00:53:34.98
Right.
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It's Luke 19:40 about
Jesus, triumphal entry,
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you remember when He
came in on the donkey
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and so on and so forth.
00:53:41.12\00:53:42.45
Yes.
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And He said, if these
people who were shouting
00:53:43.85\00:53:46.05
and excited about,
00:53:46.09\00:53:47.42
if they had held their
peace, you remember this,
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He said even the
stones would cry out.
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Yes, indeed.
00:53:52.26\00:53:53.60
You know, so we cannot,
we stand firm for principle,
00:53:53.63\00:53:55.83
but we're not gonna be quiet.
00:53:55.86\00:53:58.00
Because we have a
message to give to the world
00:53:58.03\00:54:00.77
and it's again,
it said love message
00:54:00.80\00:54:02.80
all you want it is,
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but it's a warning
message of the coming of Jesus
00:54:04.21\00:54:06.71
and we need to be ready.
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Just real quick, I think
to stay alert, to stand firm,
00:54:08.11\00:54:10.71
to have the
faith, to show courage,
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the beautiful thing,
00:54:12.65\00:54:13.98
all those things are
gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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We don't have to...
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Because If have
look at that, I think,
00:54:16.95\00:54:18.29
I have none of those
things but only through prayer,
00:54:18.32\00:54:21.39
only through the
indwelling of His Spirit
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can we even do that.
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And I think how important
this message is standing firm
00:54:25.03\00:54:28.43
for the time in which we
live in because the days ahead.
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I mean, if we're not
faithful in these little things,
00:54:31.73\00:54:33.97
we'll never be
faithful when there's much,
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when our mediator steps
down, he says it is done.
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So we need Him to
have strength in us.
00:54:40.88\00:54:43.01
Amen. Yes.
00:54:43.04\00:54:44.38
I have a quick
statement, I'd like to read.
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All right.
00:54:45.81\00:54:47.15
It's from Acts of the
Apostles, page 431 and it says,
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"God desires his
people to prepare
00:54:50.72\00:54:53.22
for the soon coming crisis,
00:54:53.25\00:54:55.42
prepared or unprepared
00:54:55.46\00:54:56.99
they must all
meet it and those only
00:54:57.03\00:54:59.46
who have brought
their lives into conformity
00:54:59.49\00:55:01.53
to the divine
standard will stand firm
00:55:01.56\00:55:04.37
at that time of test and trial.
00:55:04.40\00:55:06.74
When secular rulers unite
with ministers of religion
00:55:06.77\00:55:10.27
to dictate in
matters of conscience,
00:55:10.31\00:55:12.77
then it will be seen who
really fear and serve God.
00:55:12.81\00:55:16.71
When the darkness is deepest,
00:55:16.75\00:55:18.51
the light of a godlike character
00:55:18.55\00:55:20.78
will shine the brightest.
00:55:20.82\00:55:22.48
When every other trust fails,
00:55:22.52\00:55:24.35
then it will be seen
00:55:24.39\00:55:25.92
who has an
abiding trust in Jehovah.
00:55:25.95\00:55:29.22
And while the enemies
of truth or on every side,
00:55:29.26\00:55:32.63
watching the
Lord's servants for evil,
00:55:32.66\00:55:35.66
God will watch
over them for good.
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He will be to them as
the shadow of a great rock
00:55:38.60\00:55:42.54
in a weary land."
00:55:42.57\00:55:43.91
Amen.
00:55:43.94\00:55:45.27
Stand firm.
00:55:45.31\00:55:46.71
Jason, you've got
a closing thought.
00:55:46.74\00:55:48.38
Yes, you know,
00:55:48.41\00:55:50.35
perhaps someone out
there has been searching
00:55:50.38\00:55:53.35
and they've been searching
in all the wrong places.
00:55:53.38\00:55:56.65
If you've been out there
and you've been searching
00:55:56.69\00:55:58.49
and you've turned to
drugs, you've turned to alcohol,
00:55:58.52\00:56:00.59
you've turned to women or
men or whatever it is or money.
00:56:00.62\00:56:05.36
These things
cannot fill the void
00:56:05.39\00:56:07.30
that is in your heart right now.
00:56:07.33\00:56:08.76
These things cannot
take the place of Christ.
00:56:08.80\00:56:11.63
Christ is the only one
that can give you that peace,
00:56:11.67\00:56:14.84
that peace that
passes all understanding,
00:56:14.87\00:56:17.54
that peace that
you're longing to experience.
00:56:17.57\00:56:20.51
Whether you know it or not,
you're searching for Christ,
00:56:20.54\00:56:23.48
but you're looking
in all the wrong places.
00:56:23.51\00:56:25.61
So stop going to
all of the wrong places
00:56:25.65\00:56:29.05
and start with
Christ, you won't regret it.
00:56:29.08\00:56:33.02
Amen. Good.
00:56:33.05\00:56:34.39
We're getting it.
00:56:34.42\00:56:35.76
1 Thessalonians 5:21, it says,
00:56:35.79\00:56:37.59
"Prove all things and hold
fast to that which is good."
00:56:37.63\00:56:41.66
Amen.
00:56:41.70\00:56:43.33
I was just thinking, you know,
00:56:43.37\00:56:44.87
I was kind of on
the same page as him
00:56:44.90\00:56:46.90
because without
Christ we can do nothing,
00:56:46.94\00:56:49.50
but with Christ
we can do everything.
00:56:49.54\00:56:51.57
That same power
that resurrected Christ
00:56:51.61\00:56:54.78
from the grave is
there to give us life
00:56:54.81\00:56:56.85
anew on this earth today.
00:56:56.88\00:56:58.81
Amen. Amen.
00:56:58.85\00:57:00.48
Well, it's been a great program.
00:57:00.52\00:57:01.85
Yes.
00:57:01.88\00:57:03.22
I know I'm blessed,
somebody else has blessed me.
00:57:03.25\00:57:04.79
Me too. Amen.
00:57:04.82\00:57:06.25
We're thankful to be
here, we're thankful for you.
00:57:06.29\00:57:07.92
Thank you for your
love, and your prayers,
00:57:07.96\00:57:09.56
and financial support of 3ABN
00:57:09.59\00:57:11.83
as we endeavor to
take this great gospel
00:57:11.86\00:57:14.20
of the kingdom
into all the world.
00:57:14.23\00:57:15.96
Well, Yvonne, I
brought the program in today,
00:57:16.00\00:57:18.20
so I'm gonna let
you take it out today.
00:57:18.23\00:57:20.60
You have 17 seconds,
what do you gonna do with it?
00:57:20.64\00:57:24.01
I'm gonna read
another scripture.
00:57:24.04\00:57:26.68
You got 10 seconds.
00:57:26.71\00:57:28.04
Ten seconds, well, I'm not,
00:57:28.08\00:57:29.91
I'm just gonna
say thank you so much
00:57:29.94\00:57:32.01
for joining us and
stand firm in the Lord,
00:57:32.05\00:57:34.68
you'll never regret it.
00:57:34.72\00:57:36.05
God bless.
00:57:36.08\00:57:37.42
Amen.
00:57:37.45\00:57:38.79